To use the OpenSSH tools, a user must have an account on both the client and server systems. The accounts do not need to be configured identically on each system.
User configuration files are located in the .ssh
directory in a
user's home directory (~/.ssh
) on both the client and server. OpenSSH
creates this directory and the known_hosts
file when the user first uses
an OpenSSH utility to connect to a remote system.